Although my undergraduate major is digital media art, I have never written code like now. This semester, I spent almost all of my class time with my keyboard. I sat in the coffee shop and knocked on the keyboard, went home and lied in the bed, and knocked on the keyboard. During classes, I also need to code. For me, it's okay, I can at least run my code after mechanically typing the coding and enjoy some of the pictures which was calculated by my code. But for those who sit in the office every day, mechanically knock the keyboard every day and look at the text that is output. Will there be a feeling of boredom? I suddenly thought about the relationship between people and machines. Computers with high efficient calculating increase productivity and bring convenience to us, but what seems to be missing in a recurring system of repeated inputs and outputs?
Marx, in < Economic & Philosophic of 1844>, indicates that:
..So much does the appropriation of the object appear as estrangement that the more objects the worker produces the less he can possess and the more he falls under the sway of his product, capital. ...(29)
Facing the keyboard, I remembered the typesetting of the input system. The craftsman engraved the words on the lead, and then the people placed the words, which they need, in a paper-sized frame, then blotted the ink, spread the paper, and printed the words on the paper. This invention greatly reduced the workload of the scribes at that time and improved their work efficiency. The movable type system is now considered as a work of art, but it does not seem to have a lot of beauty. In the Chinese engraving art, the popular Chinese contemporary engraving art combines sculpture, graphic design, color, and lettering techniques. Formed a piece of beautiful art, but this traditional art is not valued by Chinese people, especially young generation.
I want to combine contemporary lettering art and movable type system and create a circular system with input and output function. By comparing an old input technology with a modern printer, I wish people would like to consider the relations between human and machine. In additional, I also hope that people can appreciate this kind of traditional art.
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